{"id":48903,"date":"2025-03-03T19:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48903"},"modified":"2025-03-03T19:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:27:46","slug":"trade-what-is-mercosur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/trade-what-is-mercosur\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade: what is Mercosur?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about trade and trade regions: the tutor mentions Mercosur.<\/h2>\n<p>\nMercosur is defined, in some literature, as a process of integration. As I understand, Mercosur includes, presently, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Venezuela, with Bolivia&#8217;s membership pending.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe membership of Mercosur has a population of around 300 million and is among the top ten world economies. (Brazil, by itself, is ninth. By way of comparison, Canada is tenth.)<\/p>\n<p>\nThe European Union has been developing a trade agreement with Mercosur. Currently, Mercosur does more trade with the EU than with the US.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercosur.int\/en\/about-mercosur\/mercosur-in-brief\/\">mercosur.int<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/qanda_24_6245\">europa.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/gdp\/gdp-by-country\/\">worldometers.info<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about trade and trade regions: the tutor mentions Mercosur. Mercosur is defined, in some literature, as a process of integration. As I understand, Mercosur includes, presently, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Venezuela, with Bolivia&#8217;s membership pending. The membership of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/trade-what-is-mercosur\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trade: what is Mercosur?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3033],"tags":[3557,3556],"class_list":["post-48903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade","tag-european-union","tag-international-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48903"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48911,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48903\/revisions\/48911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}